Bishop vs. Prelate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bishop and Prelate
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Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or appointed member in a religious institution, who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. The title is most often used in Christian churches, but is also used in some Japanese Buddhist institutions, and by the Japanese new religion Tenrikyo.
Prelate
A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin praelatus, the past participle of praeferre, which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'prefer'; hence, a prelate is one set over others.
Bishop
A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles.
Prelate
A high-ranking member of the clergy, especially a bishop.
Bishop
Abbr. B(Games) A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.
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Prelate
A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.
Bishop
Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves.
Prelate
(obsolete) To act as a prelate.
Bishop
(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
Prelate
A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
Hear him but reason in divinity, . . . You would desire the king were made a prelate.
Bishop
A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
Prelate
To act as a prelate.
Right prelating is busy laboring, and not lording.
Bishop
(obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
Prelate
A senior clergyman and dignitary
Bishop
(obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
Bishop
A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
Bishop
(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
Bishop
Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
Bishop
(dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
Bishop
A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
Bishop
A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
Bishop
A bustle.
Bishop
A children's smock or pinafore.
Bishop
(Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
Bishop
To confirm (in its other senses).
Bishop
(Christianity) To make a bishop.
Bishop
To provide with bishops.
Bishop
To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
Bishop
To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
Bishop
To murder by drowning.
Bishop
A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( ) and "elder" or "presbyter."
Bishop
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
Bishop
In the Methodist Episcopal and some other churches, one of the highest church officers or superintendents.
Bishop
A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; - formerly called archer.
Bishop
A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar.
Bishop
An old name for a woman's bustle.
If, by her bishop, or her "grace" alone,A genuine lady, or a church, is known.
Bishop
To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
Bishop
To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
Bishop
A clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ
Bishop
Port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
Bishop
(chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
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